Castillo-Bailey Lightweight Matchup Completes UFC 139 Card

The UFC announced Tuesday that lightweights Shamar
Bailey and Danny
Castillo will lock horns at UFC
139, bringing the total number of fights confirmed for the Nov.
19 event to 12.
UFC 139 will emanate from HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., the
former longtime home of Strikeforce. A pair of onetime Pride
Fighting Championships stars will headline the show, as former
two-division champion Dan
Henderson locks up with onetime UFC light heavyweight titlist
Mauricio
Rua.

The card will also offer feature four more former world champions.
In the evening’s co main event, former Pride titlist Wanderlei
Silva will lock horns with onetime Strikeforce belt-holder
Cung Le.
Preceding that bout will be a bantamweight scrap between ex-WEC
champions Urijah Faber
and Brian
Bowles.

Following a stint on “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 13, Bailey made
his official UFC debut at the season finale, earning a unanimous
decision win over fellow cast member Ryan
McGillivray to snap a two-fight losing skid. Most recently, the
two-time Strikeforce vet was out-boxed by well-rounded southpaw
Evan
Dunham at UFC Fight Night 25, dropping a unanimous decision on
Sept. 17.

Castillo (Pictured) recently had a three-fight winning streak
snapped by fellow wrestler Jacob
Volkmann at UFC Live 5 on Aug. 14. Prior to that defeat, the
Team Alpha Male representative had rattled off wins over Dustin
Poirier, Will Kerr and
Joe
Stevenson. An eight-time WEC veteran, the 32-year-old posted a
6-2 record in that promotion before making his successful UFC debut
against Stevenson in March.